My recollection is that the accusations of Lula being implicated in the Lava Jato wasn't substantiated, but the accusation was used politically to send him to jail and thus prevent him from running for office against Bolsonaro. In the end all of the major charges against Lula were annulled [1], and the charge that got him sent to jail (bribery based on property being given to him, where no record of any sale or transfer of ownership was ever produced) was a political character assassination job and frame placed on him by a different judge in coordination with political opposition working to prevent him from running in the 2018 election[2].
> the accusations of Lula being implicated in the Lava Jato wasn't substantiated
They were, with an overwhelming amount of evidence of several different wrongdoings.
Just to point, he was tried for 2 different crimes, by 4 different judges each, and found guilty every time.
> In the end all of the major charges against Lula were annulled
By those same political judges the GP is talking about. Based on the trial not following a law that was created 2 years later, with the explicit intent of making trial of politicians harder.
> and the charge that got him sent to jail was a political character assassination job
And that's, to be blunt, absolute bullshit. The charges were never formally decided after the trial was annulled, they are still open, sealed back into secrecy, and pending judgement.
I don't think so? I'm asking for sources that I can read from people who are making claims to, to support their assertions. I've posted material that is more recent than the first post I replied to, and I haven't seen anything more recent from you or the couple of other folks who seem to have formed the opinion that what I've related is either false or incomplete. So please help a brother out here.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56326389
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/04/brazil-crimi...